1969 March & April

motive

MARCH-APRIL 1969

ON THE LIBERATION OF WOMEN :

special double issue

Volume XXIX, Numbers 6

EDITOR: B. J. STILES

SENIOR EDITOR: ALAN D. AUSTIN

ART EDITOR: DENNIS AKIN

EDITORIAL ASSISTANT: JOANNE COOKE

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS:

WILLIAM STRINGFELLOW

ANTHONY TOWNE

CIRCULATION: MARY ETTA DUFFEY

PROMOTION: RICHARD FRICKS

SECRETARY: JANE JAMES

GUEST EDITORS

for this special issue

JOANNE COOKE, Token Woman on the

motive

editorial staff,

coordinated, cajoled, and commandeered th is broadside into

print. (See editorials, pages 4 and 86.)

CHARLOTTE BUNCH WEEKS, a W.l.M. activist and long-time

friend of

motive,

provided guidance, grit, and an occasional

ultimatum in the process, as special editorial consultant. Her

title had to be that vague to cover a woman whose activities

have included. an honors thesis on the role of women in the

Chinese revolution ; a year of special study at the Institute for

Policy Studies; and organizing work for both the Movement

for a Democratic Society and the World's Student Christian

Federation. She buys her plane tickets in Cleveland, Ohio.

ROBIN MORGAN completes the feminization of the staff for

this issue; she was w illing, on incredibly short notice, to step

in as Guest Poetry Editor. Rob in is active in the Movement, par–

ti cularly, of late, the W.l.M., and has written widely for both

the overground and underground press. Her own poems and

translations are legion; her first collection,

War

Games, will be

published this year. She lives and writes in New York.

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Founded 1941 by the Methodist Student Movement.

1969 by the Board of Education of The

United Methodist Church.

CONTENTS

3 LETTERS

4 HERE'S TO YOU, MRS. ROBINSON

editorial,

JOANNE COOKE

7 THE DEMISE OF THE DANCING DOG

CYNTHIA OZICK

17 REVOLUTIONARY LETTERS

poems,

DIANE Dl

PRIMA

18 THE RESTLESS EAGLES: WOMEN'S LIBERATION

1969 MARLENE DIXON

24 METAMORPHOSIS INTO BUREAUCRAT

poem,

MARGE PIERCY

41 THE PLAYGROUND

poem,

LEAH FRITZ

43 THE SUBVERSION OF BETTY CROCKER

SUSAN SUTHEIM

48 WOMAN AS: SECRETARY, SEXPOT, SPENDER,

SOW, CIVIC ACTOR, SICKlE

MARILYN SALZMAN WEBB

60 VINDICATION OF BEAUTY

poem,

LYNN STRONGIN

61 THE REALITIES OF LESBIANISM

DEL MARTIN AND PHYLLIS LYON

68 YOU'VE COME A LONG WAY, BABY-WOMEN

IN THE MOVEMENT

LINDA SEESE

72 A MAN'S VIEW

ANDY HAWLEY

76 WITCH

poem,

JEAN TEPPERMAN

77 WITCH POWER

W.I.T.C.H.

78 KINDER, KUCHE, KIRCHE AS SCIENTIFIC LAW:

PSYCHOLOGY CONSTRUCTS THE FEMALE

NAOMI WEISSTEIN

86 BETWEEN BARS

B. J. STILES

89 MORE TO READ ABOUT WOMEN

91 CLASSIFIEDS

92 CONTRIBUTORS

COVER 3: BABY-FACED ARSENAL: CELERY,

STRIPES AND HONOR

INTAGLIO : BEN SAKOGUCHI

COVER 4: AMERICAN MANNIKIN

INTAGLIO, BRUCE CODY

COVER ART: Margaret Rigg probes, satirizes and

celebrates. In

motive's

first three-dimensional cover,

Peg penetrates the layers of reality and complexity

which constitute individual identity and social con–

text. Selective details emphasize the fragmentary

nature of life; the colorful composite suggests that

threads do make a fabric of meaning.

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